the meta-testbed effect
Emulab / netbed
- boot-your-own OS doesn’t scale to unaffiliated site
- architecture should permit it virtually
- service lives in a slice
- offers its own user mgmt, authentication, ...
=> need to offer virtual machine with virtual chroot ASAP
RON
- need access to raw sockets to build gateways
- need safe (restricted) access to raw sockets early
- need mount
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Hard to put a machine in someone else’s site and give out root.
Architecturally, should not need to do it.
=> pushed VServer and SILK agenda
and ... federate without losing identity